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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-101538733218

ISBN-139781538733219

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050388416

Product Key Features

Book TitleLiberation

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicWar & Military, Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Historical

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorImogen Kealey

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-286053

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"What a story, and Imogen Kealey tells it brilliantly. This is more than a heart-stopping and exciting adventure thriller: Nancy Wake is a heroine for our times, as well as for hers. The most extraordinary thing of all is that in its essentials, the story is true."-- Andrew Taylor, author of An Unpardonable Crime

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisInspired by the true story of World War II's greatest heroine, this international bestseller and "cinematic treat" tells the story of Nancy Wake and the impact she had on the world ( Publishers Weekly ). Hero. Soldier. Spy. Leader. Her name is Nancy Wake. To the Allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a special operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world. But at first, Nancy Wake was just another young woman living in Marseilles and recently engaged to a man she loved. Then France fell to the Nazi blitzkrieg. With her appetite for danger, Nancy quickly finds herself drawn into the underground Resistance standing up to Nazi rule. Gaining notoriety as the White Mouse, with a 5-million-franc bounty hanging over her head, Wake rises to the top of the Nazi's Most Wanted list--only to find her husband arrested for treasonous activity under suspicion of being the White Mouse himself. Narrowly escaping to Britain, Wake joins the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and parachutes into the Auvergne, where she must fight for the respect of some of the toughest Resistance fighters in France. As she and her maquisards battle the Nazis, their every engagement brings the end of the war closer--but also places her husband in deeper peril. A riveting, richly imagined historical thriller, Liberation brings to life one of World War II's most fascinating unsung heroines in all her fierce power and complexity. This is the story of one of the one of the war's most decorated women, told like never before.

LC Classification NumberPS3611.E145L53 2020